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...recent years urged it to give up the drug trade, disappeared after an attack near his Córdoba ranch. Murillo and the AUC's other chief, Salvatore Mancuso, deny involvement, as well as the drug-trafficking charges. But after Castaño's apparent elimination, says U.S. ambassador to Colombia William Wood, AUC members have "lost their disguise. Their character as narcoterrorists has been revealed." The AUC started out two decades ago as a right-wing counter to Colombia's Marxist guerrillas, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC. But after the 1993 death of Medell...
...cross-fire." Nowhere is anxiety running higher than in the fortified palaces that house the country's royal rulers. Though the al-Saud dynasty has controlled the country for 72 years, the public is losing faith in its ineffectual governance and doubts its ability to snuff out terrorism. British ambassador to Saudi Arabia Sherard Cowper-Coles calls the terrorist threat "serious and chronic." One Saudi lawyer, Mansour al-Qerni, is even more pessimistic. "Is this going to end, or are my children going to have to accept this as a part of their lives?" Says a Saudi political analyst...
...Saudi imams to rail against Crusaders and Jews in much the same manner that al-Qaeda does. When the country's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Abdullah, blamed the Yanbu outrage on Zionists, reformers felt he was once again appeasing hard-line opinion. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi ambassador to the U.S., seemed to acknowledge his government's shortcomings last week when he publicly called for mobilization against al-Qaeda and an end to sympathy for the extremists. "Neither the government nor the citizens are yet prepared for this crucial, fundamental stage to winning this war," he acknowledged...
...ambassador of the organization for years, she first joined Right to Play four years ago when Nikki Stone, a U.S. Olympic gold medal-winning aerialist, convinced her to sign...
...past, Nair has resolutely refused suggestions that she plays the role of cultural ambassador, but she now expresses a sense of responsibility to her Indian audience...